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Re: Steve Jobs is Shocking in his Biography

MikePLewis — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:09:08 -0000

the book implies that a lot of his emotional troubles stem from his adoption. There are quite a few quotes from his friends saying, "it's like he had a hole missing and he was on a quest to find it". This was given as an explanation as to why he adopted such a counter-culture stance and why he went to india for 9 months and just bummed around. It seems like it was a huge issue for him.

Re: Steve Jobs is Shocking in his Biography

Kita — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:54:53 -0000

I was wondering about that. You read a lot about how he was so innovative, etc. but there weren't so many people coming out talking about how he was just an all around great guy.

Re: The Biggest and Baddest Pig Ever

Albmushroom — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:46:43 -0000

omg that is a big pig nice shot

Re: My thoughts on Steve Jobs | Loo.me

Kelly Fraser — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:26:17 -0000

I enjoyed reading your piece Mike. I thought of you often since Steve's passing. Strangely, I was (in a way) waiting for an expression of love, loss and inspiration from you.

Re: 50/50 is the best movie of the year (so far)

Willis Taylor — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:45:48 -0000

Jules only does doublers. God bless the cineplex.

Re: 50/50 is the best movie of the year (so far)

Abigail Kesner — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:39:05 -0000

Skeletor stole the show indeed.

Re: Top 10 US soccer players

dan — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:42:30 -0000

Agreed. Obviously the writer had some issues with Donovan's stint at Leverkusen and Bayern. Those in the know realize he was in a no-win situation at both places. Want to critique his European play? Ask anyone at Everton.

Re: 8 Ways Pirates of Carribean steals from Return of the Jedi

david — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:03:10 -0000

Pirates of the Caribbean 1-3 were all AWESOME, but I have to say that On stranger tides was truly the best so far for me. I really loved it alot and I can't wait till it comes out on DVD! I'm so exited!! :D

Re: Why the Miami Vice TV Show is Cooler Than the Movie

George — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 04:43:39 -0000

I agree. A friend of mine who apparently didn't like the show and/or Don Johnson claimed that the movie was good because "It's not a Don Johnson thing. It had a storyline." To each his own, but I always thought, I dunno about that. A lot of ppl hated the movie because they didn't realize it had a storyline. My hometown paper called it plotless. Anyhow, the show had a bit of humor and character, and Michael Mann has claimed the movie didn't need character development because Crockett and Tubbs are already well-known. That threw me for a loop b/c I buy into remakes and reimaginings being different from the original. As for movie Crockett, they never said he was a Southerner, but I guess he was b/c we all know TV Crockett was.

Re: Freeway: A Reese Witherspoon and Keifer Sutherland Whacked-out Movie

Essebeach — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:02:22 -0000

I just watched it.. It was great lol.

Re: I Still Believe in Patch

Mike22 — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:05:46 -0000

The answer was never difficult: Hire less MBA's and more creative people with vision, AND provide them with the ability to EXECUTE on good ideas they produce.

Re: The Deck: A Fascinating Ad Platform

Andy — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:37:14 -0000

Good point, but the number of advertisers is the very "volatile" number here. Put that, for one month (maybe during summer when there's less traffic) they don't top with 15-20 advertisers but instead they fill only 5-8 slots. There will be less payout for the network, how can they manage it? The publishers will be given the same amount, or they earn corresponding to that month income?

Re: The Deck: A Fascinating Ad Platform

MikePLewis — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:39:23 -0000

Good question. From the sites they are getting, it does seem that people find it a good alternative. So it must pay well. I'd be curious to hear what you find out about it.

Re: The Deck: A Fascinating Ad Platform

MikePLewis — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:38:34 -0000

I don't think so. I think they just keep it at $1500. Similarly, if you go under during a month, they eat the lack of impressions. The key to their model is that both the sites and the advertiser understand that they are no longer operating on a CPM basis anymore. The traffic of a site sets the initial price, but it doesn't govern how much is paid or impressions.

Re: The Deck: A Fascinating Ad Platform

Andy — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:38:32 -0000

And, as they have fixed rates (e.g. 1500$ for one month), how can they manage an excess of CPM? Put they sell a month for 10M impressions, and that month the network do 15M, they have to payout to the publishers the extra 5M impressions.

What do you think?

Re: The Deck: A Fascinating Ad Platform

Andy — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:31:22 -0000

I'm curious about how much these networks pays out to publishers. Are revenues CPM based? The Deck is high priced so they can easily have good payouts, but what about smaller networks like Carbon or Fusion? With $1500 (or less) per ad for 15-20 advertisers and 50 sites in the network...just do the math! Even if they split equally 100% is like 600$ per publisher, is that worth being the one and only ad on your website?

Re: Big Bad Texas Gator

A0307090807 — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 01:50:28 -0000

If that's a 23 ft gator that deer must be a horse. Not even close to 23 ft. Still, 13-14 ft is monster enough.

Re: Foursquare vs. Quora: which would you invest in?

MikePLewis — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:01:21 -0000

Here's an update: Foursquare users are checking in 3 million times per day now, up from 2 million in February. Out of 10 million users that’s a very impressive number. (Business Insider)

Re: Why Turntable is Kicking Ass

mosjef — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:56:06 -0000

it's a funky licensing model mixing Soundexchange with on-demand but if they can get the sponsorship model right it should work. sticky experience. motivated to be in the room and on the page.

Re: Why Turntable is Kicking Ass

MikePLewis — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:42:52 -0000

I disagree with the fact that Grooveshark is doing well. They both have users. It's not the users that are the problem. Give anyone free music and you'll get users. It's the fact that the business isn't crushing it. Turntable is the same business model as Pandora but without the advertising built yet, they are just bleeding cash at the moment.

Re: Why Turntable is Kicking Ass

iamnader — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:11:45 -0000

pandora, spotify and grooveshark are all doing well though. i think this is actually a good time to be in music tech because there will have to be a solution. music isn't going away yet. and no one has totally figured it out yet...

Re: Business Org Charts (Apple, Microsoft and others)

Manu Cornet — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:07:38 -0000

Hi there, this drawing was taken from

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Could you add the original link to your post? Thanks!

Re: Top 10 US soccer players

Maxsports — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:27:56 -0000

#1 should be Landon Donovan and Clint Dempsey #2.

Re: Top 10 US soccer players

Mickeymoo123456 — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:30:43 -0000

Mia Hamm is very good she should be #1

Re: Big Bad Texas Gator

Jimenezvansofthewalljose — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:36:18 -0000

big ass mofo